{"id":153437,"date":"2026-06-24T08:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T08:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153437"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T08:59:09","slug":"drowning-desert-how-xinjiangs-infrastructure-could-fail-under-record-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153437","title":{"rendered":"Drowning desert: how Xinjiang\u2019s infrastructure could fail under record rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostRare but intense rainfall in China\u2019s biggest desert that triggered flooding \u2013 and damage \u2013 across parts of Xinjiang has underscored the growing risks posed by extreme weather in the country\u2019s arid northwest.<br \/>\nAccording to China Weather Network, the public information platform of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA), two major flood events have occurred along the margins of the Taklamakan Desert, a once-arid region, this month.<br \/>\nWhile warmer, wetter conditions in recent decades made&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3358143\/drowning-desert-how-xinjiangs-infrastructure-could-fail-under-record-rain?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostRare but intense rainfall in China\u2019s biggest desert that triggered flooding \u2013 and damage \u2013 across parts of Xinjiang has underscored the growing risks&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}